If you were part of the class action lawsuit against Facebook for using your name in their Sponsored Stories without your permission then you have a nice check for $15 headed your way. Brendan Spaar is unaware if he was featured in a sponsored story because he does not use Facebook. In addition to the settlement with some 600,000 users, the social media site must pay $5 million to the lawyers and several more million to nonprofits like the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and schools. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg should adopt Google's philosophy of Do No Evil. Is the person responsible for this ad campaign still working at Facebook? There may be an opening soon.Source: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/08/facebook-reaches-settlement-sponsored-stories/68752/

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Brendan Spaar is a technology blogger from Forsyth County, GA. Since 2008 he has had a major presence on the web from Alpharetta to Georgia you can find many of his posts all over the internet. This is the technology blog where you will not find arrest or mugshot photos of people but instead you will find